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Galaxy TEST week 4

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Lesson: Classify this galaxy

a)

Sb

b)

SBc

c)

Irr

d)

E0

2.

Lesson: Classify this galaxy

a)

Sa

b)

SBa

c)

Irr

d)

S0

3.

Lesson: Classify this galaxy

a)

Sa

b)

SBa

c)

Irr

d)

E5

4.

Lesson: Classify this galaxy

a)

Sa

b)

SBa

c)

Irr

d)

E5

5.

Lesson: Classify this galaxy

a)

Sa

b)

SBa

c)

Irr

d)

E5

6.

What is the name of our galaxy

a)

Sagitarius

b)

the Milky Way

c)

The big bang

d)

Andromeda

7.

How wide (diameter) is our Galaxy approximately?

a)

10 light years

b)

1000 light years

c)

100,000 light years

d)

100,000,000 light years

8.

Where is the sun located in the milky way

a)

At the center of the milky way

b)

about 1/2 way out 25000 light years from the center

c)

In the halo about 50,000 light years from the central bulge

9.

Which of the following is NOT a part of our galaxy

a)

Galactic Bulge

b)

Disk

c)

Arms

d)

Halo

e)

Energy Jet

10.

How many stars are in the milky way galaxy?

a)

1 to 4 Thousand

b)

10 to 40 Million

c)

100 to 400 billion

d)

1 to 4 trillion

11.

A galaxy that produces huge amounts of energy.

a)

active galaxy

b)

spiral galaxy

c)

dwarf galaxy

d)

elliptical galaxy

12.

Most of the material in the universe and we don't know what it is really

a)

Dark matter

b)

Stars

c)

Planets

d)

Antimatter

13.

Lesson: These galaxies look like fuzzy blobs lacking geometric structure are called ...

a)

elliptical

b)

spiral

c)

barred spiral

d)

irregular

14.

the bending of light around a massive object such as a galaxy

a)

gravitation lens

b)

seyfert effect

c)

interstellar medium/matter

15.

The Magellanic clouds are

a)

irregular dwarf satellite galaxies of the milky way, seen in the sky of the southern hemisphere

b)

galaxies that produces huge amounts of energy; they produce more energy than the total energy emitted from all of the stars in the nebula.

c)

are regions of stars that extend from the center of spiral and barred spiral galaxies.

16.

Where are supermassive black holes usually found?

a)

Center of a galaxy

b)

in the arms of a spiral galaxy

c)

on the edge of the galactic halo

d)

between the arms in the "emptier" space of dwarf irregular galaxies.

17.

What is one interesting thing you learned from the articles you found on your own these past few weeks?

4 lines
18.

Which of the following is the largest distance measurement?

a)

1 AU

b)

1 Lightyear

c)

1 kiloparsec

d)

1 megaparsec

19.

Which of the following are found in the disk of a spiral galaxy

a)

the bulge

b)

the arms

c)

the halo

d)

the galactic neucleus

20.

the ___________ cause(s)___________ making it hard to see through the plane of the milky way

a)

interstellar medium / extinction

b)

galactic bulge / gravitational lensing

c)

Magellanic Clouds / galactic cannibalism

d)

Dark matter / kiloparsec